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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

NOTE from DearMYRTLE: The following was just received from our friends at NEHGS. Please address all inquiries to amagno@nehgs.org.

Scott Steward and Christopher Child Share Top Prizes from NGS and CSG

Boston, MA – May 22, 2012 – The New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) announced today that one of its latest Newbury Street Press titles, The Descendants of Judge John Lowell of Newburyport, Massachusetts, by
Scott C. Steward and Christopher C. Child, has won top honors from both
the National Genealogical Society and the Connecticut Society of
Genealogists. The awards were handed out at recent ceremonies hosted by
each organization.

The
National Genealogical Society (NGS) awarded Christopher C. Child the
2012 “Award for Excellence: Genealogy and Family History Book” on May
11, during the NGS annual conference held this year in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Connecticut Society of Genealogists (CSG) honored both authors with
the 2012 “Literary Award, Grand Prize for Genealogy” at its annual
luncheon on May 19 in Berlin, Connecticut.

NEHGS
Director of Publications and book co-author Scott C. Steward said, “We
had hoped to make the Lowell book a model, both as a genealogy and as an
example of book production at Newbury Street Press, so having our work
recognized by NGS and CSG is doubly rewarding.”

The
book marks the first full treatment of the Lowell family since an 1899
genealogy written by Delmar R. Lowell. This new book traces descendants
of Judge John Lowell (1743-1802) to the present day, and includes famous
descendants Francis Cabot Lowell, for whom the city of Lowell,
Massachusetts is named; John Lowell, Jr., founder of the Lowell
Institute in Boston; James Russell Lowell, the poet and diplomat;
astronomer Percival Lowell; Harvard president Abbott Lawrence Lowell;
the poets Amy Lowell and Robert Traill Spence Lowell; architect Guy
Lowell; and Isabella Stewart Gardner, art patron and museum founder. The
book comprises more than one thousand entries for heads of families.
Because of several early cousin marriages, many Lowell descendants have
two or even three lines of descent from Judge John Lowell.

This
marks the first time that NEHGS has won both a national and a regional
award for one of its books. NEHGS publishes a number of titles each
year, including genealogies, biographies, and instructional and resource
books. NEHGS publishes its genealogies under the Newbury Street Press
imprint. Learn more at www.AmericanAncestors.org